Trump says evidence ties China lab to virus, threatens tariffs | Malay Mail

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WASHINGTON, May 27 — US President Donald Trump today threatened China with fresh tariffs as he stepped up his attacks on Beijing over the coronavirus crisis, saying he had seen evidence linking a Wuhan lab to the contagion. The diatribe from the Republican incumbent came as data showed the United...

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event on protecting seniors with diabetes in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 26, 2020. — AFP pic

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has so far killed more than 230,000 people and forced more than half of humanity to live under some kind of lockdown, which has crippled economies. Trump is increasingly making Beijing’s handling of the outbreak a major issue for his November re-election campaign.

The depressing US jobs data compounded the tough message from European Central Bank Christine Lagarde. Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, “will experience the worst recession in the history of the federal republic” — founded in 1949 — Economy Minister Peter Altmaier warned, predicting it would shrink by a record 6.3 per cent.The coronavirus virus has infected at least 3.2 million people so far, with Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin becoming the latest high-profile figure to test positive as his country’s caseload surged past 100,000.

The United States tops the table with nearly 63,000 deaths. It recorded more than 2,000 deaths for the third day running today.

 

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I couldn’t relate evidence = tariff. I thought it should be evidence = ICJ

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